tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post6740923020477012157..comments2024-03-28T20:47:48.468-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: PLATO'S GORGIAS -- A MINI-TUTORIAL PART TWORobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24356237951458118832021-10-11T15:47:44.807-04:002021-10-11T15:47:44.807-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Business Leads Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06682586770344781777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-23797309736509124772012-02-29T08:41:09.121-05:002012-02-29T08:41:09.121-05:00The distinction re-appears (un-indexed, in my edit...The distinction re-appears (un-indexed, in my edition) at 520b, where Socrates proposes that Sophistic is a higher art than Rhetoric. If, on analogy, that implies that Legislation is higher than Justice, then, Rule of Law is higher than Rule of the Just Man, which calls into question a standard interpretation of the relation between the Republic and the Laws.Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-3474386271779129202012-02-28T10:29:30.013-05:002012-02-28T10:29:30.013-05:00At 465c, Plato introduces a distinction between &q...At 465c, Plato introduces a distinction between "sophistic" and "rhetoric", on analogy with legislation-justice,and gymnastics-medicine. Is there any historical background to the distinction, and is it one that he maintains in The Sophist?Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.com